Ex Parte 6446045 et al

3 Cited authorities

  1. Ethicon, Inc. v. Quigg

    849 F.2d 1422 (Fed. Cir. 1988)   Cited 666 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding the Board may not indefinitely stay an ex parte reexamination in light of parallel district court litigation via the "special dispatch" standard
  2. Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google Inc.

    708 F.3d 1310 (Fed. Cir. 2013)   Cited 103 times
    Holding that a specification's mere disclosure of "a computer program that transmits" is not structure as a matter of law because it is merely a non-limiting "abstraction that simply describes the function"
  3. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 6,025 times   1026 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"